ESCAPE - Living Planet Fugitive - DiHydro

DiHydro

Hello everyone. I'm joining in on the fun kind of late, but that's ok I'll probably continue to work on this if I don't meet the deadline and add it to my portfolio.

My idea is inspired by Gradius, an old school side scrolling shooter. I'm going to be creating an environment as well as a vehicle. The environment is set in an underground cavern full of tentacles, worms, ooze, warts, eyeballs and everything nasty.
The vehicle is of course a spacecraft/jet of advanced human technology fighting its way through danger and looking for a way to escape.

I experimented a little bit before I decided on this topic, as seen in the thumbnails below.

My first priority will be to finish the spacecraft, but I will try and work on both things at once.

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Current:

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A couple of thumbnails, playing around with composition as well as adding different ideas and elements in.



Went a little further by adding possible inhabitants of the planet. I don't know if I'll be creating a creature due to the time constraints, but good to keep in mind of what may be natural habitats of the environment I will be creating.

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Ideas for the spacecraft escapee.



I decided on this one, I may change a thing or two as I go along after I see it in 3D.

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Rough 3D blockout, need to make the front and side view a bit more interesting in terms of silhouette.

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Some progress on my high res model. There's a couple of asymmetrical pieces I haven't updated yet over onto the plane's left side.

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Started working on some more ideas for the environment. Time flies fast when you let your pencil flow so I decided to stop here for now.

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Made a lot of different changes to the spacecraft from my original concept. I wasn't totally satisfied with the silhouette and I wanted to make the jet look more aerodynamic. Some of the pieces are still floating because I'm still tinkering around.

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Sculpted how some of the walls of the living planet would look like.



Here's what i got so far.

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Partially blocked in scene in udk.

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Getting a bit closer to finishing the hi res spacecraft. Had a lot of inspiration from Macross.

fei-rukawa

Very cool spacecraft design!

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Sculpted a heart for the environment. I'd like to eventually get some pulsing/beating going on to get the feel of the planet being alive, but that'll be at the end of the list.

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Starting my textures on the heart. Here's the low poly mesh with baked normals.

ljsketch

space ship looks bad ass.

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Thanks for the compliments.

Went back and polypainted the heart, might work on it a bit more.



edit: worked on veins a bit.

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UDK scene, experimenting materials on walls, a bit too much contrast probably...
Working on fixing the scale too, a normal humanoid figure is actually pretty small in the scene, big enough for a jet to fly through each of the openings.



I think I need more smaller elements in the scene, probably alien grass and maybe small rocks/minerals and such to help give a better sense of the scale I'm going for.

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Things to do: tweak texture contrast, redo some UVs, tweak lighting, add pools of water/liquid on ground, alien eggs, add rocks/rock textures, smaller props.

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More progress on the environment. Totally forgot about the new landscape feature, so i scrapped my terrain. I'm liking landscape much more so far.

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Baked normal and AO maps with xNormal, then sent it into marmoset to see how it looks.





Polygon count is at 9324, I think I could go lower on the geometry but I wanted to make sure the form baked the way I wanted. Textures used on the mesh is 2048x2048.

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Adjusted lighting, terrain and textures a bit. Will set up vertex painting on the walls if I have time. Meshes are a bit jagged as well so I might adjust that with more geometry. I will probably continue improving this environment after deadline. I put the spacecraft in there for scale reference.

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Close to completing the texturing for the spacecraft.






I've also added water/liquid to the scene, might turn it into blood, ill play around.



I might start sculpting more environment props.

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OK calling it done on the spacecraft.